In recent years I have observed that a growing number of young Catholics, particularly seminarians, choose now to receive holy Communion on the tongue. To be sure, the Church permits Catholics to ...

For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion. In order to be properly disposed to receive communion, participants should not ...

Notre Dame’s OCIA program, the largest in University history, is guiding 55 students through the process of initiation into ...

Going to Mass and receiving Communion are signs of putting one's trust in God and understanding he is the one who gives the ...

ROME (AP) — Parishoners gathered inside St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland ... in an Ash Wednesday celebration, receiving ashes and Holy Communion. He later set to work, which ...

In the homily, De Donatis said the ashes that observant Catholics receive on the first day of ... go ahead without Francis but in “spiritual communion” with him. The theme, selected weeks ...